![]() ![]() In our sophisticated, secular society, we can still learn from these ancient tales of love, adventure, magic, monsters, heroes, death, rebirth, and transcendence. Campbell showed that these old myths and stories, even if you don’t believe them literally-indeed, he encourages you not to-still hold value for us. ![]() Now I can’t watch certain movies without analyzing them in terms of Campbell’s outline.īut that book had another lasting effect on me. Once you read his analysis of the monomyth, the basic outline of mythological stories, you find it everywhere. Joseph Campbell’s Hero with a Thousand Faces is a book that, for better or worse, will forever change how you see the world. Now I am rather an authority on gods, so I identified the machine-it seems to me to be an Old Testament god with a lot of rules and no mercy. I have bought this wonderful machine-a computer. ![]()
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